Qualys has presented a solution that allows the company to increase the degree of customization of its cloud platform. Is about Qualys Custom Assessment and Remediationwhich makes possible the deployment of its cloud platform offering the custom script management that can be natively integrate with other solutions of Qualys. With it, the company wants to significantly reduce response time, since it allows security teams to manage workflows, secure custom applications and take immediate action to combat security threats, such as zero-day attacks.
Custom Assessment and Remediation gives the Qualys platform everything necessary for security architects to create custom scripts in all major programming languages. These scripts can have user-defined controls as well as automation. Everything is integrated into existing programs so they can rapidly assess, respond and combat threats in hybrid environments.
With Qualys Custom Assessment and Remediation, security teams can deal with “Zero day” type threats quickly. This is because this solution shifts the power to respond to such vulnerabilities quickly to the security team. To do this, they have automation of processes such as data collection and evaluation, as well as the synthesis of third-party threat intelligence sources. Also with the possibility of carrying out the appropriate remediation.
To achieve this, they have several options: configuration changes, deletion of suspicious files or implementation of registry changes. This gives them an accelerated MTTR, a basic element to block an attack.
Teams also have custom auditing and security applications with this solution, and can add custom controls and processes for various activities. Including remediation. This frees up IT teams and security professionals to spend more time on strategic activities. They will also be more efficient through tight integration into Qualys VMDR workflows by assigning custom identifiers.
In addition to all this, Qualys Custom Assessment and Remediation also offers access to a centralized library for custom scripts and controls. This centrally managed and customizable library has over 50 reusable scripts of the most commonly used commands. The solution is already available, and its free trial can be requested on this web page.
